28 occurrences

'To the Lord' in the Bible

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainAbraham, Testing And Victoryprocess

And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Verse ConceptsBearingStrictnessPunishments

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfSweet OdoursCurses, DivineCovenant, God's with Noahevil, origins ofEarth, Promises AboutBeing Born In SinAromasHeart, DivineMind, The HumanSin, Universality OfSmellsAltarsBeing Evil From YouthGod KillingThoughts Of The WickedSoliloquyGod CursingGod Killing All PeopleRefreshing GodThe Hearts Incination To Evil

And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.

Verse ConceptsBless The Lord!

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAi, The CityCalling upon GodNomadsShrinesTentsAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Calling And LifePrayer, Described AsAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsEast And West

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAltarsTreesBuilding AltarsOaks

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Verse ConceptsPromises, HumanGod On HighAll Things Belong To God

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

Verse ConceptsVeilsNames Of GodGod, All knowingGod Seeing All The EarthThose Who Saw GodVisibilityOther References To God's Name

And he saith, 'Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, 'I do it not, if I find there thirty.'

Verse ConceptsThirtyLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

Verse ConceptsTwentyNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he saith, 'Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, 'I do not destroy it, because of the ten.'

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfTen PeopleLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To GodWorth

as a promise to the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you won't acquire a wife for my son from the Canaanite women among whom I'm living.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGod, Sovereignty OfHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansWives, Duties OfIntermarriageSwearing

And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

Verse ConceptsJourneyKindnessGod Has GuidedBless The Lord!God Showed His Lovingkindness

And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

Verse ConceptsBowing Heads Before GodGod Has GuidedBlessed Be God!

And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Practicalities Of

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombGrinding PeopleWhy Does This Happen?Fighting One AnotherstruggleLife StrugglesFamily ConflictStrugglesHaving A Baby

Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon.

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To MeHating IndividualsPeople With Apt Names

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

Verse ConceptsCessationShowing Forth His PraisePeople With Apt Nameschildbearing

And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessPaying Attention To People

And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

Verse ConceptsSwordsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessGod Might Kill His People

But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.

Verse Conceptshumor

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

Verse ConceptsGod Sending ProphetsGod TroublingWhy Does God Do This?

But Moses said to the Lord, “Look, [my own people] the Israelites have not listened to me; so how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled and inept in speech?”

Verse ConceptsEloquencedoubtersHesitationLipsDoubtShynessTimidityUncircumcised In Heart

But Moses said before the Lord, “Look, I am unskilled and inept in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me and pay attention to what I say?”

Verse ConceptsAbilityPaying Attention To PeopleUncircumcised In HeartSpeech

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningPray For UsPraying For SinnersTaking Animals

And Moses said to Pharaoh, “I am entirely at your service: when shall I plead [with the Lord] for you and your servants and your people, so that the frogs may leave you and your houses and remain only in the Nile?”

Verse ConceptsWhen?

And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordGod, Uniqueness OfMonotheismUniquenessGod's Action TomorrowNo One Is Like GodKnowing God's Charactertomorrow

And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsPraying For Sinners

And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, PracticesFear Of StoningHating Peoplescats

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The Wilderness

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far AwayPray For UsPraying For SinnersSacrificesupplication

And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitGod's Action TomorrowThose Who Deceived

Then Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPraying For Sinners

Make an appeal to Yahweh. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”

Verse ConceptsPray For UsPraying For SinnersMore Than Enough

And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodKnowing God, Nature OfPlaguesPrayer, Practicalities OfProperty, LandStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings StoppingAll Things Belong To God

And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Moses And AaronElements, Control OfDivine Power Over NatureStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings Stopping

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?

Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God

Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go and give worship to the Lord your God: but which of you are going?

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodWho Is The Doer?Worship God!

And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsHerdsAll PeopleBoth Men And Animals AffectedFestivals Observed

Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.

Verse Conceptsdriving outMen WorshippingWorshipping God

Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to Yahweh your God, so that He will take this death away from me.”

Verse ConceptsNot DyingDeath PreventedForgive One AnotherPray For UsPraying For SinnersForgiveness

Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPraying For Sinners

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningWorship God!

And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offering

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithCeremoniesCelebrationsAtonement, Types OfOrdinancesMemorialRegulations For PassoverThe Law Given To IsraelCelebrationremembrancecelebrating

you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” So the people bowed down and worshiped.

Verse ConceptsBowingProperty, HousesPassing OverReverence, And ObedienceBowing Heads Before GodGod KillingRegulations For PassoverWorshipping GodGod Killed The Peoples

And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said.

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightKings SummoningWorship God!

It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtMan Keeping WatchActing All Night

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessUncircumcisionForeigners Permitted At The FeastsCircumcisionStrangers in israelAliens

Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7anniversary

That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningWombConsecrationOpening The WombPeople Belong To God

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

Verse ConceptsStubbornness, Consequences OfDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingMale AnimalsBoth Men And Animals KilledHindering God's WorkGod Killed The PeoplesRegulating Sacrifices

And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfCrying To GodFearing Other People

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Verse ConceptsBackDeborahHorsesMoses, Life OfVictory, As An Act Of GodGlory Of GodThrowing PeopleThose Singing PraiseArt Of Celebratingdeliverance

And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Verse ConceptsThrowing PeopleThose Singing Praiseancient Choirs

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronAnswered PrayerSweetnessNamed Individuals Who PrayedWeedexams

Then Moses instructed Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the Israelis, "Come near into the LORD's presence, because he has heard your complaints.'"

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsGod HearingGod Paid Attention To Them

And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

Verse ConceptsCooking, MethodsLaw, Ten CommandmentsSabbaths InstitutedResttomorrowcooking

And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.

The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the Lord’s command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTTravelParticular JourneysNo Water For People

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Verse ConceptsSelf PityCrying To GodFear Of Stoning

And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you out of the hand of Pharaoh and out of the hand of the Egyptians; freeing the people from the yoke of the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForRescueBless The Lord!

And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodFireResponseTheocracyWe Obey

And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyEternal LoyaltyHearing God's VoiceBelieving ProphetsTelling What People Said

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

Verse ConceptsSeeing GodDeath Due To God's Presence

And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

Verse ConceptsConsecrationBreaking ForthMaking People Holypriests

And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesHoliness, Believers' Growth InGoing Up Mountainslimitations

And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesGoing Up MountainsMan Going DownBreaking Forth

but the seventh day is a Sabbath [a day of rest dedicated] to the Lord your God; on that day you shall not do any work, you or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock or the temporary resident (foreigner) who stays within your [city] gates.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestIndustryStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And WomenSabbaths InstitutedStrangers in israel

then there will be an oath to the Lord between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor's goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanSwearing Oaths

And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPresent, TheWaterWorship, Reasons ForGod Will BlessHealth PromisedDiseaseGod Healing Our LandGod's Healing LoveSicknessServing GodIllness

And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Privilegeselders, as community leadersSeventyGoing Up MountainsSeventiesWorshipping Goddistance

And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.

And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringYoung AnimalSacrificing CattlePeace offerings

You are to put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance representing the sons of Israel, and Aaron is to carry their names into the LORD's presence on his two shoulders as a memorial.

Verse ConceptsShouldersShoulder Pieces

You are to put the Urim and Thummim into the breast piece of judgment, and they are to be on Aaron's heart when he goes into the LORD's presence. He is to carry the breast piece of decision that depicts Israel's sons on his heart in the LORD's presence continuously."

Verse ConceptsBreastpieceThe Urim And ThummimPeople Involved In JudgementOther References To The HeartUrim And ThummimDecision Making

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

Verse ConceptsSealsToolsPlatesengraving

And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, From GodForeheadsIncurring GuiltSubstitutionWelcomed By God

And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodRefreshing God

and put all upon the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons: and wave them in and out, a wave offering unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsWave OfferingsSwinging

And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodRefreshing God

And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.

And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringTwilightRefreshing God

And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAtonementExpiationAtonement, in OTWorship, Times ForAaron, As High PriestAltar Of IncenseEvery YearAtoning By Sacrifices

When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

Verse ConceptsCollectionsNatural Disasters

This is what everyone who is counted shall give [as he joins those already counted]: a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel (the shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel as a contribution to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsCoinageCoinsFractions, One HalfComparative MeasuresValuation Of PeopleRight MeasuresTax To Be Paid

Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeTwentyAge

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentCoinageBeing PoorValuation Of PeopleTax To Be PaidWealthy People

When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceAblution

The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSimilar Items

Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalRest, PhysicalThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkHoly TimesNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRest

And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsProclamationsMan's Action TomorrowBuilding AltarsFestivals Observed

he went and stood in the gate of the host and said, "If any man pertain unto the LORD, let him come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together and came unto him.

Verse ConceptsChoicesGood Decision Making ExamplesRankChoosingAssembling LeadersStanding In The Gateway

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